“Thinking of a place” by The War On Drugs

"Thinking of a Place" sits on The War on Drugs' 2017 album A Deeper Understanding, and it's Adam Granduciel's song from top to bottom: he wrote it, produced it, sings it, and turns up in the credits on everything from guitars and piano to celesta, vibraphone, harmonica and Wurlitzer.

The band fills in the dream around him. Charlie Hall's drums roll along at a patient highway clip, Dave Hartley's fretless bass slides underneath, Robbie Bennett layers synths and keys, and Max Hart's pedal steel drifts across the horizon like heat haze, with Paloma Gil and Louise Hayat's voices floating in the background. Shawn Everett recorded and mixed it, and the whole thing unspools slowly, in no hurry to arrive anywhere, which is exactly the pleasure of it.

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